Comments collected at our launch event on June 16:

• Financial support for The Kings Arms youth centre.
• Toilets on The Heath very poor.
• Too many cafes and coffee shops being built - far too many.
• Pedestrianise The Square! It is a wasted resource when the market isn’t there (which is great) but can coexist.
• Too many coffee bars. Keep the small shops. Improve entrances to the town.
• No pedestrian centre.
• Library and post office are important.
• Ban all traffic on High Street and The Square.
• Clean up the town - too much litter everywhere - it is shameful! No more eating places.
• Whole centre of the town pedestrianised.
• Too many pubs. More clothes shops please. It is an excellent place. Convenient with the station. Nice cafes for lunch.
• Carrier bag free town.
• Pedestrianisation will be the death blow to the centre of Petersfield.
• The sooner the High Street is pedestrianised the Square gentrified the better. Andy Millar.
• Against pedestrianisation. Guide dogs need kerbs. Very uneven surface. Adverse effect on vibrancy.
• Pedestrianise the High Street at weekends and zebra crossing and make it more twee.
• Pedestrianise The Square. An annual event like the Harting Festivities for Petersfield.
• Get rid of traffic on the High Street on a Saturday.
• No parking in The Square. Deliveries before 9 am. Daily cleaning of the town.
• Independent shops - not twee!
• More facilities for young people - shelters, playing fields, inexpensive sport facilities and activities. Promotion and funding of Kings Arms essential.
• Please a pedestrian way at The Square area. Thank You.
• Underground car park.
• Too many pot holes.
• Around the station is a real mess. No cleaning outside the town centre.
• Parking in roads near the station - please help us make our residential roads safer and maybe restrict speeds.
• Street cleaning - Sunday mornings at least, to clear up from Saturday nights (pubs to pay).
• No to pedestrianisation but please better crossing points, kerb drops for push chairs and wheelchairs. Wider paths. Not courtesy crossings that mean nothing.
• Pedestrianise High Street at weekends.
• Tesco - oppose expansion, EHDC should have good representation to deferral. Important to keep local green spaces for wildlife. Local independent shops are very important to keep.
• Fountains in the Heath pond. (for visual effect and to aerate the pond for the fish)
• Petersfield has unique character, friendly. Industrial development should be discouraged, would spoil the town character.
• More parking in centre.
• Pedestrianisation of High Street to be a priority.
• Too many flats and high density housing being built.
• Children’s centre along lines of Sure Start.
• Do NOT pedestrianise the High Street.
• Stricter planning controls on new buildings in conservation area.
• Move statue to Festival Hall car park. Modern hexagonal cafe on centre with removable sides. Ice creams and kids in the middle of town.
• Change name back to St.Peters in the Field.
• Do NOT pedestrianise High Street.
• Playgrounds - please invest and update. Remember families and children live here too.
• Avoid pedestrianisation - visit Hemel Hempstead and Chesham town centres to see the impact - less atmosphere - kills town.
• More clothes shops less cafes.
• More buses please - difficult connections and sometimes impossible. Library needs support - is being run down - no telephone directory there. Proper cinema - tragedy to knock down art deco building. Silly to have Kings Arms in a rubbish building when you can refurbish the art deco building.
• Keep green spaces.
• Make good use of space next to The Market Inn. Cut down the conifers and open up.

View photographs from the launch event in The Square, June 16th - Click HERE